AS400e for sale
Norb
Aaron 09 4865066 has this IBM AS400 e-series Minicomputer (Monster)
for sale Type 9402-600 and wants offers over $1000
has 8 scsi HDDs 4gig? 8gig?
cd
tape backup
serial number 10-896da
give him a ring and tell him to remember that I get 30percent
:-)
Dave - Dave.net.nz
sorry, not interested... but, I just got given one of these, only with
12 4GB Hdds, and running a fresh install of AIX... not sure what to do
with it though, what are they normally used for?
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froggy
> Norb wrote:
>
>> Aaron 09 4865066 has this IBM AS400 e-series Minicomputer (Monster)
>> for sale Type 9402-600 and wants offers over $1000
>>
>> has 8 scsi HDDs 4gig? 8gig?
>> cd
>> tape backup
>> serial number 10-896da
>>
>> give him a ring and tell him to remember that I get 30percent
>> :-)
>
> sorry, not interested... but, I just got given one of these, only with
> 12 4GB Hdds, and running a fresh install of AIX... not sure what to do
> with it though, what are they normally used for?
The proper thing to do with them is give them away to complete strangers
on Usenet (ps my email is valid wink wink)
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It's only paranoia if you're wrong
Dave - Dave.net.nz
>>>Aaron 09 4865066 has this IBM AS400 e-series Minicomputer (Monster)
>>>for sale Type 9402-600 and wants offers over $1000
>>sorry, not interested... but, I just got given one of these, only with
>>12 4GB Hdds, and running a fresh install of AIX... not sure what to do
>>with it though, what are they normally used for?
> The proper thing to do with them is give them away to complete strangers
> on Usenet (ps my email is valid wink wink)
I have "given" it to a company that a few friends and I run, and it'll
probably end up running some flavour of BSD, or Linux, and doing backups
for us(wont spam-vertise it here though, we're not quite ready for
anything yet).
Jason Fanning
@individual.net:
> Norb wrote:
>
>> Aaron 09 4865066 has this IBM AS400 e-series Minicomputer (Monster)
>> for sale Type 9402-600 and wants offers over $1000
>>
>> has 8 scsi HDDs 4gig? 8gig?
>> cd
>> tape backup
>> serial number 10-896da
>>
>> give him a ring and tell him to remember that I get 30percent
>> :-)
>
> sorry, not interested... but, I just got given one of these, only with
> 12 4GB Hdds, and running a fresh install of AIX... not sure what to do
> with it though, what are they normally used for?
>
I didn't think an AS/400 e-series would run AIX? They are different
hardware from the RS6000, the iSeries was the model of AS/400 they started
being the same. They can run Linux as a partition.
Dave - Dave.net.nz
>>sorry, not interested... but, I just got given one of these, only with
>>12 4GB Hdds, and running a fresh install of AIX... not sure what to do
>>with it though, what are they normally used for?
> I didn't think an AS/400 e-series would run AIX? They are different
> hardware from the RS6000, the iSeries was the model of AS/400 they started
> being the same. They can run Linux as a partition.
to tell you the truth, I have no idea... it has both AS400 and RS6000
written in various places on it, and they have always referred to it as
both names here at work.
David Preece
> sorry, not interested... but, I just got given one of these, only with
> 12 4GB Hdds, and running a fresh install of AIX... not sure what to do
> with it though, what are they normally used for?
Normally you remove the insides and make a beer fridge.
Dave
Jason Fanning
>> I didn't think an AS/400 e-series would run AIX? They are different
>> hardware from the RS6000, the iSeries was the model of AS/400 they
>> started being the same. They can run Linux as a partition.
>
> to tell you the truth, I have no idea... it has both AS400 and RS6000
> written in various places on it, and they have always referred to it as
> both names here at work.
The newer ones (Within the last 9 years from memory) both run PowerPC's
(quite well actually too, running an entire company on a 266MHz PPC), and
recently IBM has been manufacturing them using common hardware etc.
Don Hills
Jason Fanning <jfan...@clear.net.nz> wrote:
>
>The newer ones (Within the last 9 years from memory) both run PowerPC's
>(quite well actually too, running an entire company on a 266MHz PPC), and
>recently IBM has been manufacturing them using common hardware etc.
Last time I looked (a couple of years ago) the CPUs in the AS/400 were
slightly different architecture than the ones used in the RS/6000. The main
difference was in the addition of bits for hardware control of storage
access. The AS/400 is a single level storage system, it has no concept of
disk storage, everything is conceptually in main memory at all times.
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are governed by people who are not as smart.
Jason Fanning
news:Ve65Btga...@attglobal.net:
> In article <Xns95DEE...@202.180.64.19>,
> Jason Fanning <jfan...@clear.net.nz> wrote:
>>
>>The newer ones (Within the last 9 years from memory) both run PowerPC's
>>(quite well actually too, running an entire company on a 266MHz PPC),
>>and recently IBM has been manufacturing them using common hardware etc.
>
> Last time I looked (a couple of years ago) the CPUs in the AS/400 were
> slightly different architecture than the ones used in the RS/6000. The
> main difference was in the addition of bits for hardware control of
> storage access. The AS/400 is a single level storage system, it has no
> concept of disk storage, everything is conceptually in main memory at
> all times.
>
I remember something about IBM merging their servers units into one, with
the desire of making the RS6000 (or zSeries, or pSeries or whatever it is
called now) and iSeries a common hardware platform, not sure how close they
are yet.